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Big swaths of the Enforcement Acts were either modified or repealed over the years, and the federal government didn’t do much more about elections until the Civil Rights Movement, Keyssar said.

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We don't know how many of these European ideas have made it into the new proposal, but Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz calls the deal "significantly modified" – in a positive sense.

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Under very low nitrogen fertilizer conditions, the modified wheat also produced higher yields compared to control plants.

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To overcome this, the inserted gene is modified so that the enzyme it produces crosses the blood-brain barrier more efficiently.

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"We've discovered that an enzyme released by neurons can modify proteins on the outside of other cells to turn on pain signaling -- without affecting normal movement or sensation."

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